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WORK OF JUfli LYNCH.tad j, Bisli Me fm Am CoqMj iaii and Stmng Up,An Armed Body of 100 Men Oome in from the Country and Do the Job.Tho Negroni Naked Body Left Dangling from too End of a Hops In the Fall Glare of the Electric Light—Doom of toe Jail Broken and Pried open—Guards Over-Powered—Marshal Mason Brutally Kicked—The Inquest.Samuel J. Btub, the ne*?ro who was poeitivaly identified aa the brate who outraged Mrs* William H. Vest in Ml. Zion township May 80th, woe forcibly taken from the body of the oounty jail at 2:15 o'clock this morning and was ex-eouted by banging, as a quick punish* ment fofr his hideous crime. There were no specialty exciting features oonneoted with the summary lyuehiog Inside of an hour after the attack on the jail was oom manned Bush wsa strung up, and in 12 minutes he wae pronounced dead by Dr, H. D. Heil and Dr. T. B. Spalding, who were in the crowd and were oailed upon to examine him. The ravisher did of etr angulation.XHH CROWD.Despite the rain which fall early last evening the crowd of Severn! tkooeand people, including many women and children, stood nenr the oourt house and in front of the jail The rain could not drive them away. They expected something to happen and they teemed bent on staying up to see it out. Every tew minutes there were rumors afloat to the efteot that the Mt. Zion people were Coming in, sod the false rejH?rts kept the otowd surging to and fra There waa no attempt made to dear the street* or disperse the people, Everybody w as; aim ply waiting. In the crowd and at the street corners were farmers from the country who were on the watch and waiting, Thpy kept close to the jad, front and rear, but they said nothing—they were only waiting. Ten, elev*wo, twelve and one o'clock struck from the court house £ower, and still the lynching gang ex-peoted from the country did not appear, The crowd gradually thinned out. It
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Decatur Daily Republican
Decatur, Illinois, US
Sat, Jun 03, 1893
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